The Project Translation Memory is an automatic translation memory which learns from the translation in your project. The more you translate, the better it gets.

By default, the Project Translation Memory uses translations from your current project, but you can fine-tune the projects to use in input in the Project Settings, under the “Translation Resources sub-tab”.

The Global Translation Memory is an automatic translation memory using all the project which choose to contribute to it. To date, the Global Translation Memory contains more than 24 million translations.

If you’d like to contribute or access the Global Translation Memory, then check the setting in the project settings.

The Translation Memory fills up automatically and suggestions automatically load up when you enter a segment.

In the following example, we’ve got one Complete Match (or 100% match) from the Global Translation Memory. Click on the suggestion to paste it to the translation box.

In this other example, we’ve got several matches from the Global Translation Memory.

You can tune the quality and quantity of the suggestions by selecting a different level of matching in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. You will get more suggestions by choosing a lower suggestion quality. If the suggestions are overwhelming, then choose a higher level of suggestions (4, 7, 10 or Complete Match).

You can also get suggestions from different Machine Translation engines by configuring them. Learn more about it in Machine Translation.

WebTranslateit supports importing a Translation Memory exported as a TMX file. To do so, create a new project, setup the language pairs and upload your TMX files. Once this is done, configure your working project Translation Memory to use the Translation Memory of the project you just created.

Proofread (Completed) Segment

A proofread segment has had its translation read by a proofreader and any errors have been marked or corrected.

Who can and how to proofread?

Managers and translators with proofreading rights can proofread a segment by ticking the segment’s checkbox located at the top right corner of a segment. Proofread segments appear with a green indicator.

How to unproofread a segment?

Managers and translators with proofreading rights can unproofread a segment by un-ticking the segment checkbox. Editing and changing the translation of a proofread segment also marks the segment as unproofread.

How to proofread a segment?

Untranslated Segment

An untranslated segment is a segment that has not been translated nor proofread yet. An untranslated segment can be proofread in which case its status is proofread. This is useful when a segment must be intentionally be left blank for instance. Untranslated segments appear with a red, dotted indicator.

How to translate a segment?

Managers and translators can translate a segment by clicking on the translation area.

Managers and translators can then type their translation in the translation area and click on the green Save button to save the translation.

How to remove this “to verify” status?

Obsolete Segment

An obsolete segment is a segment that is no longer in use in your project. Instead of deleting this segment and its translations, we put it in a temporary category, “obsolete”, so that you can recover it and its translations. Obsolete segments are hidden from translators.

Why are my segments marked as obsolete?

Segments don’t become obsolete by themselves. When someone uploads a new version of your file in which a segment was removed it will then be removed from WebTranslateIt as well. We call that obsoleting a segment. For more information and concrete examples check our documentation on obsoleting segments.

How can I un-obsolete a segment?

You can mark a segment as active by uploading a version of your file that contains that segment, or by marking the obsolete segment as active.

Plural Segments

A plural segment is a segment which often includes a countable variable placeholder (a number for which the value can vary programmatically). Nouns are inflected by this grammatical number and generally have different forms for singular and plural. In English for instance we decline the word dog in 1 dog and 2 dogs.

You can use the help tools given in the translation interface to translate these segments.

Important You may have more or less plural forms in your target language than in your master language. Plurals are different in many languages. For more information read the section about plural segments in the FAQ and in the documentation.

AutoSave

AutoSave is a feature that you can activate and deactivate in the toolbar. When turned on saving translations on the translation interface happens automatically without clicking on the “Save” button, which is not present.

Regex Search

Ignore Case

Ignore case lets you choose whether your search is case sensitive or not. Searching for Air with case sensitivy on won’t match words such as repair or commanditaire but will match sentences containing as Air Drop or Air quality. With “Ignore Case” turned on it will match all of these segments.

Collaborators

Collaborators are users working on at least one project of your organization.

You can’t manually add new collaborators to an organization. Collaborators are added automatically when you invite someone to a project or Team.

On the other hand, removing a collaborator from your organization revokes their access to all of your Projects and Teams. It’s a great way to remove an ex-employee from all your projects, teams and organization.

Clicking on the ⋆ icon flags a collaborator as an Admin. It means that this collaborator will be able to create new projects for your organization and assign projects to Teams.